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Magento 2 Hosting

I first started working with Magento in 2009, when version 1.6 was released. Since then Magento 1 evolved into Magento 2 and is one of the top e-commerce platforms. Magento 2 is an extremely robust and flexible e-commerce platform and … Continue reading

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Using Magento 2 Widgets

Ever wish you had an easy way to add content blocks to your site quickly and easily? Enter Magento widgets. Magento Widgets allow you to add static blocks to almost any area of your site, including the checkout pages. In … Continue reading

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Magento 2 Youtube Video in Modal Window

Adding youtube videos to Magento 2 is fairly easy. If you are adding a video to a cms page, you’ll need three elements: The link that opens the video, the div that holds the modal window(and video ), and the … Continue reading

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Magento Migrate Data Migration Process from Magento 1 to Magento 2

Migrating from Magento 1 (M1) to a new Magento 2.x (M2) store is a multi-step process, involving a lot of debugging and tracking down migration errors. It is not something that most store owners can handle on their own. They … Continue reading

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Upgrade Migrate to Magento 2

E-commerce is expected to continue growing in 2018 and beyond, as more consumers shift to online shopping. In 2017 mobile shoppers finally outnumbered desktop shoppers for most e-commerce sites. As more companies expand their online retail presence, they will need … Continue reading

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Magento – Adding thumbnail images via import

There are times when you just want to update the thumbnail images that magento uses on the category pages as well as on product pages. The default magento dataflow won’t let you do that, but you can use magento’s fast … Continue reading

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Magento Free Shipping On Specific products

Sometimes the usual free shipping promotions won’t work in your store. For example, you may have some products that are very small and light to ship and some that aren’t. The solution is to create an attribute called free_shipping and … Continue reading

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Magento 2 adding custom block to product page with show hide function

Magento 2 has a whole new process for adding custom content on product pages. Gone is the local.xml file as well as the catalog.xml file. In it’s place, each module has it’s own set of layout files and templates. In … Continue reading

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Magento 2 Add Custom Tab to Product Page

Magento 2 has a whole new process for adding custom tabs. Gone is the local.xml file as well as the catalog.xml file. In it’s place, each module has it’s own set of layout files and templates. In today’s example, we … Continue reading

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Magento – How important is page load time and what you can do about it

How important is page load speed? Amazon has calculated that a page load slowdown of just one second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year. Google has been quoted as saying that by slowing its search results by … Continue reading

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